Aubrey Ann--4 years, 9 months

Here's Aubrey's preschool picture.

She is LOVING preschool. She loves the crafts, snack time, the "jobs," her friends, playtime, eating lunch with her class--just everything! She finally feels like she has something important to say on preschool days when Daddy comes home and asks, "What did you all do today?" She is all about the people--who did what, who was there, who wasn't, whether Luke was good or bad that day, who she sat by and played with at recess. It's so funny to me because it's the complete opposite of our experience with Kari. I'm thankful we were able to find a good fit for her this year and are able to give her this experience.

Aubrey continues to be our little girl who desperately wants to be big and who sometimes seems big, but then still does things that remind us she is still little and is only four years old. She is very emotional and dramatic when it comes to her feelings and has no trouble expressing those feelings. :)

She is into My Little Pony, Barbies, her doll Eva, American Girl, crafts (loves to use up my tape), dress-up, and drawing. Her favorite color is purple, sometimes orange, and her favorite food is pizza. She prefers Lemonade Mouth, Britt Nicole, and Toby Mac to Veggie Tales and little kid music.  Her favorite worship song right now is Matt Redman's "10,000 Reasons." She knows all the words and whenever it's on the radio in the car, she asks me to turn it up, and then belts it out. She loves to play outside with the neighbor kids, playing house, riding her scooter, and just being with the other girls. She has just started trying to do her own hair, which consists of brushing it and sliding in a clip. She also insists on wearing her headbands on her forehead, which cracks me up.

Aubrey has a delightful sparkle to her. That sparkle hasn't been as apparent lately with all of her emotional outbursts, but we see it come back when she gets more rest and isn't quite as tired at the end of each day. Preschool days tend to wear her out. She's always busy trying to keep up with the big kids, and sometimes we don't realize how tired she is until she's beyond tired and into the disaster zone, and that's our fault, not hers. Stay little a while longer, Aubrey. Little is precious; little is good.